John Sears | May 6, 2011
Could the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ occur in Wisconsin? Zach Snyder thought so. Would it involve beer? I’m just guessing, yeah: Beer for beer and shot for shot, when all 50 states belly up to the bar, few can hold their own with Wisconsin. Binge drinking – we’re No. 1. Percentage of drinkers in the population – [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
It’s coming to the point where I expect to see Zombies splashed into every conceivable project as a plot element, or conversely, every conceivable social ill explored using Zombies as a metaphor. Commercialism? ‘Dawn of the Dead’. Distrust of the military? ‘Day of the Dead’ Rage in the culture? ’28 Days Later’ Corporate Malfeasance? Every [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
One of the key strategies we engage in here at the ZRC is to cultivate support and relationships with up-and-coming stars and behind the scenes types in the independent film world. There are really two prongs to this strategy; first, just by talking and socializing with people you can expose them to alternative ways of [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
I was all prepared to be unhappy about this story but then got a pleasant surprise, or at least, a potentially pleasant one: Focus Features and LAIKA, the companies that gave us the standout animated feature CORALINE, take another venture into genre territory with the 3D stop-motion movie PARANORMAN. The long-gestating zombie project now has [...]
John Sears | May 2, 2011
In America, immigration is a charged topic and framed mostly along the lines of people coming across from Mexico, legally and illegally, along with policy questions over H1-B visas that rankle the tech sector in particular, mostly out of proportion to the relatively small number of visas actually granted. Periodically measures come up attempting to [...]
John Sears | May 1, 2011
This could be really exciting news: Universal Pictures is negotiating with Jeff Bridges to star with Ryan Reynolds in the Robert Schwentke-directed supernatural comedy R.I.P.D. The film centers on a police force comprised of undead officers, based on the Peter Lenkov comic. What’s R.I.P.D. you ask? Welcome to the Rest In Peace Department — the [...]
John Sears | April 29, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign has pledged its support for Rose White publicly before, so we thought you’d enjoy a link to some new and exclusive on-set pictures The Horror Society has up from the making of the film. Now I know, there’s a lot of blood there, but it’s not Zombie-blood or Zombie-bashing for a [...]
John Sears | April 28, 2011
There’s a classic Twilight Zone episode concerning five unusual people trapped in a strange space and their search for answers as to who, and where, and why they are, called ‘Five Characters in Search of an Exit’. So when I read a synopsis of a new and apparently Anti-Zombie movie also featuring five very distinct [...]
John Sears | April 28, 2011
On September 11th, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacked the United States. With the tragic recent release of ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction’ and the concurrent death of all American culture, they finally won. Too much like ‘The Onion’? Ok, fair enough, a more conventional ZRC Review follows. Before we get down to it though, you can watch a [...]
John Sears | April 26, 2011
While down in Bloomington I had the chance to discuss horror movies and Zombie Rights with a group of very informed individuals, and the topic of bad movies came up. Naturally, I mentioned how awful RE: Afterlife had been, and found there was universal consensus on this point among the assembled filmgoers: that movie was [...]